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M. L. BARR.

FOLDING BED. I 'No. 508,907. Patented Nov. 21, 1893.-

UNITED A STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY L. BARR, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,907, dated November 21, 1893. Application filed November 11,1892. Serial No. 451,714. (No modeh) I To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY L. BARR, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stationary Folding Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in folding beds and particularly to a folding bed having its body hinged to a framing permanently secured to the wall of a house or other permanent structure, and is adapted'to fold or be inclosed in a niche or recess formed in the wall.

The object of my invention is to economize the floorspace in small rooms, or rooms of small houses where the ordinary bed-room furniture would be inconvenient, and would occupy a large proportion of the floor space of the room; also, to combine neatness and compactness in the arrangement of thefurniture of small rooms of houses when such rooms are used for general purposes. I attain these objects'by means of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar numbers of reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

, Figure 1. is a front elevation of the bed when in its closed or folded upward position, and presenting the appearance of a closed door of the room. 7 Fig. 2. is asectionalbroken side View of the same, showing the bed resting or supported on its legs on the floor and ready for use. Fig. 3. is asectional plan view of the same through the line A. B. see Fig. 2. Flg. 4.. is an enlarged detail view of the side {hinge plate of the side of the body of the bed.

Fig. 5. is a sectional plan of the same, and

Fig. 6. is an enlarged detail view of the ways wherein the end guiding casters at the inner end of the bed work.

1. designates any suitable door-framing firmly secured to the wall 2, of a room or is built in a niche or recess formed therein.

The box or main body 3. of the bed is provided with the side trunnions 4.. which are firmly secured to the sides 5. and have their projecting ends pivoted in the hinge plates 6.

at the outer projecting corner thereof. the inner corners of the hinge plates 6. are secured the trunnions 7. whereon the rollers or casters 8. are journaled; said casters adapted to traverse in the upper and lower ways 9.

formed of any suitable metallic material and secured in suitable recesses formed in the opposite side frames 1. The'ways 9. are provided with the end notches 10, formed on their inner bottom ends. Theupper waysare preferably arranged slightly in advance of the lower ways.

11. designates the end guiding rollers or casters of the bed journaled in suitable cast-' ings 12. secured in recesses'formed in the inner lower corners of the side boards 5. and adapted to accurately lit and to run in their ways 14. and 14.. formed of a suitable metallic material and also secured in recesses formed in the side frames 1. 1.

15. designates the fixed head board of the,

bed which may be ornamented in any manner as by carving or other means andilsfirmly secured to the wall in the recess formed therein, and has its bottom beveled edge inclined inwardly and adapted to engage the simif Y larly formed top edge of the head board 16. of the body of the bed.

17. designates the usual supporting legs of the bed for supporting the outer end 'of the bed when in its lowered position ready for use.

18. designates the catch for holding the bed in its folded or closed position and is adaptedto engage and disengage'a suitable engaging anced on its trunnion or nearly so I provide 7 any suitable weight or weights (not shown) arranged across the shorter fulcrumed end of the body of the bed sufficient to counterbalance or almost counterbalance the longer or outwardly projecting portion of said bed.

The operation of raising the bed into its in- .closure or lowering it into its open position ready for use is readily performed and without the expenditureof any great force. open the bed for use, its entire body is first pulled bodily in a horizontal direction out of the recess and then rotated on its trunnions 4. in the direction of the arrow as shown in Fig. 2. till its-supporting legs 17. rest on the floor of the room, and the inner guiding rollers or casters 11. have moved upwardly in top ends thereof and till the top beveled edge of the head board 16. engages with the similarly formed edge of the board 15. which tends to hold the body of the bed in position, the remaining Weight of the inner part or head of the bed being sustained by the casters Sin the ways 9. The operation of closing is of course the reverse of that of opening and is performed by swinging the body upwardly and then pushing it backward horizontally into the recess, the casters or rollers 8. sliding backwardly in their ways 9 till they fall into their recesses or notches 10; and the rollers 11. sliding downwardly in their ways 14 into the bottom ways 14 wherein they rest, this latter movement of the rollers acting simul- ,taneously with that of the rollers 8 to pro .free to rise in the ways 14 when the bed is turned on its trunnions 4. The grooves 14 prevent the bed from turning until it has been grooves 9 and recesses 10, and the plates 12 having grooves 14 and 14 therein; of the body of the bedprovided with trunnions 4, the hinge plates pivoted on the said trunnions and provided with rollers running in the said grooves 9, and the end guiding rollers attached to the said body and running in the grooves in the' said plate 12, substantially as set forth.

2. In a folding bed, the combination, with the stationary frame, the plates having the grooves 9 and recesses 10, and the plates 12 having grooves 14 and 14 therein; of the body of the bed provided with trunnions 4, the hinge plates pivoted on the said trunnions and provided with rollers running in the said grooves 9, the end guiding rollers attached to the said body and runningin thesaidgrooves in the plate 12, the stationary head-board having a beveled bottom edge, and a board secured to the said body and having a beveled top edge and adapted to engage with the aforesaid beveled edge when the body is lowered, substantially as set forth.

3. In a folding bed, the combination, with the stationary frame, the plates having the grooves 9, and the plates having the grooves 14 and 14 of the body of the bed provided with trunnions 4, the hinge plates pivoted on the said trunnions and provided with rollers engaging with the grooves 9, and the rollers 11 projecting from the body and engaging with the grooves 14 and 14 substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY L. BARR.

Witnesses:

THOMPSON R. BELL,

JOHN N. PAGE. 

